In 1963, more than a dozen African American girls, including Carol Barner-Seay, Shirley Reese, Diane Bowens, and Verna Hollis, were arrested for protesting segregation in Americus, Georgia. At StoryCorps, they remember being held in a small makeshift jail for nearly two months.
Working as a housekeeper in a new country far from her family, Tabinda caught the eye of her future husband — Tariq Sheikh. This is the story of how they fell in love.
Announcing the launch of One Small Step Communities, an program providing training and production assistance to six local public radio stations across the U.S. as part of One Small Step, our new initiative to foster conversations across political divides.
In this week’s episode, two near-death experiences and what it means to reconnect with the people who happened to be in the right place at the right time.
